Evaluating Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting | Zendy

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Evaluating Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Author(s) -

Christos Tourmousoglou,

Spiros Lalos,

Chris K. Rokkas

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.107.488593

Subject(s) - medicine , artery , stroke (engine) , atrial fibrillation , cardiothoracic surgery , bypass grafting , coronary artery bypass surgery , surgery , off pump coronary artery bypass , cardiac surgery , cardiology , mechanical engineering , engineering

To the Editor:We read with interest the article by Sedrakyan et al.1 The authors found that off-pump surgery was associated with a reduced risk of stroke, atrial fibrillation and surgical wound infections as compared with on-pump. If the results were presented as events, the reductions were translated into 10 fewer patients with stroke, 80 with atrial fibrillation and 40 wound infections per 1000 coronary artery bypass grafts using off-pump. There were also 10 additional reinterventions with off-pump …

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